Entry № 2550 · Celtic origin

Dilys Dilys — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DIL-iss /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Celtic
Meaning
"True / genuine (Welsh + Dilys Powell film critic)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Welsh)

A name that means "true / genuine (welsh + dilys powell film critic)".

Dilys is one of the Welsh feminine names of the 19th-20th century — central to Welsh-language Methodist + Nonconformist heritage. Welsh National Revival.

True / genuine (Welsh).

The name in its native script.

Dilys
Transliteration
Dilys
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɪl.ɪs /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dilys stands.

Dilys does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Dilyss before her.

Real people
Dilys Powell
British film critic + Sunday Times + OBE.
1901 – 1995
In fiction
Dilys
Welsh true / genuine.

Names connected to Dilys.

The number behind Dilys.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dilys reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.